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Enlightenment is forgetting everything. · Council of Kings

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SPEAKER_00: There is an ever available possibility,
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SPEAKER_00: ever present possibility of forgetting everything you think you know.
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SPEAKER_00: Enlightenment has been described as forgetting everything,
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SPEAKER_00: forgetting everything,
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SPEAKER_00: returning to pure beginner mind,
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SPEAKER_00: pure
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infant mind the blank slate in a sense and in our in our
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culture this seems like
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complete nonsense it seems like why in the world would you want
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to do that in our
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SPEAKER_00: culture we prize knowledge we prize our
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belief that we've figured a bunch of things out that we have a
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pretty darn good
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sense of who we are and what the world is and we're making
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scientific progress
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we've almost got it all figured out but what if we don't what
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if that's all a bunch
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SPEAKER_00: of hooey to to a large extent you know
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SPEAKER_00: honoring all of the achievements of scientists and intellectuals,
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SPEAKER_00: not trying to negate all of that.
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SPEAKER_00: But I would suggest to you that for all of that searching and all of that
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SPEAKER_00: discovering and all of that uncovering,
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no one including the top scientists who ever lived can actually
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pin down what this
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SPEAKER_00: one single moment right now actually is.
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SPEAKER_00: And you could say, well, they know what it is.
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SPEAKER_00: You know, it's mostly empty space.
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SPEAKER_00: It's made of atoms and quarks and whatever else.
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SPEAKER_00: But those are just words.
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Those are just words describing very strange phenomena that we
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observe if we look
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SPEAKER_00: at this under a microscope.
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SPEAKER_00: But does that actually say what it is?
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SPEAKER_00: Does that pin down what it is?
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SPEAKER_00: Or is that just more...
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SPEAKER_00: description and definition masquerading as understanding?
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SPEAKER_00: Have we truly understood what a single moment of our experience is?
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SPEAKER_00: A single moment of life?
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SPEAKER_00: I personally don't
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SPEAKER_00: don't think we have in a very deep sense, a very profound sense.
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SPEAKER_00: To use an example that I use sometimes,
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we can take anything like this here that we would typically
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refer to as a leaf.
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SPEAKER_00: As Carl Sagan put it,
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SPEAKER_00: in order to bake an apple pie from scratch,
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SPEAKER_00: you must first invent the universe.
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SPEAKER_00: so we assume we know what a leaf is,
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SPEAKER_00: but you couldn't have the leaf without the tree,
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SPEAKER_00: and you couldn't have the tree without the earth,
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SPEAKER_00: and you couldn't have the earth without the sun,
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SPEAKER_00: and you couldn't have the sun without the galaxy,
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SPEAKER_00: couldn't have the galaxy without the cosmos,
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SPEAKER_00: couldn't have the cosmos without whatever,
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SPEAKER_00: whatever primordial
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infinite force gave rise to all this and to me feels like it's
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what all of this is
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is primordially made of,
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this wholeness,
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this beingness,
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this can't say what it is-ness.
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SPEAKER_00: So the point there is that in order to truly say what the leaf is,
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SPEAKER_00: or to say what anything is,
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SPEAKER_00: or to say what a single moment of our experience is,
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SPEAKER_00: you would have to actually say what the totality is.
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SPEAKER_00: Because everything,
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SPEAKER_00: every moment,
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SPEAKER_00: every seeming object is a function of the totality,
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SPEAKER_00: is a wave on the ocean.
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SPEAKER_00: So to say what any of the waves are,
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SPEAKER_00: you'd have to actually say what the ocean is,
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SPEAKER_00: the totality that they are made of,
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SPEAKER_00: that gave rise to them,
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SPEAKER_00: that they are a function of.
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SPEAKER_00: And...
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SPEAKER_00: No one has been able to do that.
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And I would suggest that the reason no one has been able to do
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that and no one will
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SPEAKER_00: ever do that is because there are qualities within what this is,
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SPEAKER_00: most notably a quality of unpinned down ability,
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SPEAKER_00: unresolvability,
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SPEAKER_00: that mean that this
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SPEAKER_00: cannot be pinned down.
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It cannot be understood in any kind of sense that means
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encapsulating it within
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SPEAKER_00: some kind of model,
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SPEAKER_00: some kind of structure,
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SPEAKER_00: some kind of theory.
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SPEAKER_00: It will never fit in any finite meaning structure,
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SPEAKER_00: in any fixed belief system,
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SPEAKER_00: in any kind of fixed symbolic meaning structure.
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SPEAKER_00: It simply will not, simply will not
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SPEAKER_00: It's too close.
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SPEAKER_00: It's too slippery.
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SPEAKER_00: It's too all-encompassing.
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SPEAKER_00: We cannot step outside of it to observe it objectively.
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SPEAKER_00: We are it.
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SPEAKER_00: We are it.
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We're utterly enmeshed,
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utterly embedded in and as this wholeness,
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this fullness of
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SPEAKER_00: It's too dynamic.
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SPEAKER_00: It's literally continuously morphing and shifting.
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SPEAKER_00: If you look closely at any moment, that moment is completely fresh.
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SPEAKER_00: You've never seen that moment before.
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SPEAKER_00: You don't know what that moment is.
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SPEAKER_00: That moment is presenting an entirely fresh array and iteration of
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attributes,
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information that has never been assimilated in that precise
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formulation before.
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SPEAKER_00: And that's true now and now and now and now and now and now.
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SPEAKER_00: You've never seen me in this way before, what you're calling me
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Jordan,
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you've never experienced yourself in this way before,
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what you're calling yourself.
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SPEAKER_00: Do you even know what you are?
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SPEAKER_00: Have you ever actually seen yourself?
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You're assuming that you know what you are,
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but do you really know what you are?
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SPEAKER_00: Do you really know what I am?
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Can you separate me or yourself out from this oceanic totality
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that gave rise to us?
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SPEAKER_00: Are we not utterly...
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inextricable with this oceanic totality literally we are the
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totality presenting as
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this razor's edge of of apparition of emanation in this moment
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that includes the
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full field which includes you know this differentiated portion
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of the field that we
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SPEAKER_00: usually define as a discrete knowable entity
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SPEAKER_00: But are we making a foundational fallacy,
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a foundational assumption in assuming that just because we've
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defined something as
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SPEAKER_00: a discrete,
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SPEAKER_00: autonomous,
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SPEAKER_00: knowable entity,
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SPEAKER_00: that doesn't mean that that's what it actually is.
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SPEAKER_00: We don't know what it is.
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SPEAKER_00: So all of that to say...
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SPEAKER_00: there's a possibility,
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SPEAKER_00: once again,
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SPEAKER_00: of forgetting all of these definitions,
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SPEAKER_00: relinquishing all of these definitions.
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SPEAKER_00: And why would you want to do that?
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SPEAKER_00: Well,
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SPEAKER_00: in a strange way,
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relinquishing all of those definitions actually starts to give
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rise to this
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SPEAKER_00: primordial sense of
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SPEAKER_00: Moving closer to the truth.
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SPEAKER_00: Moving closer to home.
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SPEAKER_00: There's a sense of coming home.
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There's a sense of,
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oh yeah,
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wow,
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I was really...
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I was really knotted up.
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SPEAKER_00: I was really... I was really cabbaged up in all of these...
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fixed definitions that i was imposing onto experience and
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trying to fit experience
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into i was trying to take this mysterious super ocean of
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infinity now and i was
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trying to stuff it into these film canisters of these
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incredibly low fidelity
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SPEAKER_00: meaning structures and
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SPEAKER_00: You know,
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SPEAKER_00: language,
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SPEAKER_00: beliefs,
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SPEAKER_00: definitions are incredible in a certain sense,
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but they are an incredibly low fidelity medium for attempting
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to capture or pin
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SPEAKER_00: down what this non-finite slipperiness,
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SPEAKER_00: this non-finite fullness,
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SPEAKER_00: wholeness,
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SPEAKER_00: fluidity is.
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SPEAKER_00: And so...
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SPEAKER_00: When you start to see that you've been,
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SPEAKER_00: in a way,
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SPEAKER_00: deeply bamboozled,
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SPEAKER_00: there has been a very,
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SPEAKER_00: very fundamental,
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SPEAKER_00: foundational,
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SPEAKER_00: primordial bamboozlement that occurred very early in life,
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SPEAKER_00: from the earliest days that we were taught language and taught,
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SPEAKER_00: that's a cat,
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SPEAKER_00: that's a ball,
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SPEAKER_00: that's you,
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SPEAKER_00: that's me,
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SPEAKER_00: that's where the...
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SPEAKER_00: That's where the hypnosis began to be implanted in a sense,
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because we began to get this idea that just because we've
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labeled something,
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SPEAKER_00: we actually know what it is.
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And the labels themselves imply a discrete,
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separable,
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definable,
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knowable entity.
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So the labels themselves give rise to an entire cosmology,
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an entire way of seeing.
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SPEAKER_00: There are philosophical priors, philosophical...
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preconceptions embedded in the very structure of the language
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that we're using so
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we've all been duped by language in a sense and it's fine it's
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it's basically
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unavoidable you know for pragmatic purposes we need to learn a
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language at this
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stage of civilization or it's going to be pretty darn difficult
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to function but
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SPEAKER_00: You know, my daughter fluently natively speaks English and German.
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SPEAKER_00: And, you know, that's beautiful.
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SPEAKER_00: And still,
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I often try to tell her and already plant seeds and remind her
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that language is
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SPEAKER_00: tentative.
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SPEAKER_00: That, you know, I tell her...
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There's kind of a secret that no one really knows what anything
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is and that we use
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SPEAKER_00: these words as a tool to refer to things,
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SPEAKER_00: but the words don't actually say what the thing is.
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SPEAKER_00: And everything is a mystery in a profound sense.
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SPEAKER_00: And what we call God, a term for this mysterious mystery,
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infinite force this infinite ocean that is that is giving rise
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to this that is
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playing as all this god is a mystery too god is just another
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word gesturing toward
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this totality that cannot be said and in a certain deep sense
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every word in the
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dictionary gestures only toward this totality because in a
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certain deep sense this
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SPEAKER_00: totality is all that there is or at least all that we
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SPEAKER_00: have ever come in contact with?
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SPEAKER_00: Have you ever stepped outside of experience?
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SPEAKER_00: Have you ever stepped outside of awareness?
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SPEAKER_00: Have you ever stepped outside of presence?
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SPEAKER_00: Have you ever encountered anything that has not occurred in presence?
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Have you ever actually encountered the past or the future or
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somewhere else other
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SPEAKER_00: than where you presently are other than as
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SPEAKER_00: a thought right now.
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SPEAKER_00: It's always now.
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SPEAKER_00: Now is the primordial fact in a sense, the groundless ground.
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SPEAKER_00: We are here now.
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SPEAKER_00: Presence is undeniable and unavoidable.
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SPEAKER_00: Although we're very good at spending gargantuan quantities of time
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SPEAKER_00: trying to live everywhere other than where we actually are.
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SPEAKER_00: We spend gargantuan quantities of time fixated on the past,
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SPEAKER_00: you know,
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SPEAKER_00: the imaginary past,
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SPEAKER_00: fixated on the imaginary future,
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fixated on mental stories and interpretations and fixed views
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that cannot come
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SPEAKER_00: close to containing this infinite vastness,
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SPEAKER_00: this nowness.
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SPEAKER_00: And so, when you start to let yourself
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see that you're involved in that,
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you can begin to undercut that process.
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You can begin to unclench the fist and relinquish all of these
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fixed views.
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SPEAKER_00: You can really deeply start to see that no fixed view,
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SPEAKER_00: no dogma,
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SPEAKER_00: no belief system can ever come close to
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SPEAKER_00: encapsulating, defining, or describing even this single pine cone.
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You could spend a million years writing a million treatises
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about this one pine
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SPEAKER_00: cone,
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SPEAKER_00: and you would not pin down what it is.
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You would not adequately or accurately describe or encapsulate
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or precisely put
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SPEAKER_00: your finger on what it is.
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SPEAKER_00: And that's quite astounding.
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SPEAKER_00: That's quite astonishing.
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And that gestures toward this possibility of forgetting all
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these ideas,
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all these definitions.
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SPEAKER_00: And it's not to say you won't still have access to them.
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SPEAKER_00: It's not like you're going to give yourself a lobotomy to
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SPEAKER_00: you know,
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you're still going to have access to all these ideas and
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definitions that you can
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draw upon when they are relevant in whatever context you happen
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to find yourself in
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SPEAKER_00: that requires those.
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SPEAKER_00: But you start to really deeply see through them.
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SPEAKER_00: You see them as a kind of pragmatic architecture.
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SPEAKER_00: Something we've invented and overlaid atop this primordial nowness.
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SPEAKER_00: As a kind of bridge that allows us to communicate with each other.
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SPEAKER_00: That allows us to communicate certain practical actualities.
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SPEAKER_00: That allows us to express deep feelings and even mystical realities.
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's incredible how far language can go.
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SPEAKER_00: It's just that there's infinitely farther that it cannot go.
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SPEAKER_00: And that infinity is ever-present, ever-present with us here now.
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SPEAKER_00: And if you look deeply and sincerely at any facet of your experience,
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I suggest that you will discover that language cannot
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ultimately pin it down.
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SPEAKER_00: And so...
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When we begin to undercut that endless defining process and we
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cease to give so
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SPEAKER_00: much credence to our definitions,
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SPEAKER_00: we start to relinquish even some of our most primordial definitions.
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SPEAKER_00: You know, such as, I'm me.
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SPEAKER_00: My name is Jordan.
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SPEAKER_00: You know, time exists.
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SPEAKER_00: Space exists.
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SPEAKER_00: The world exists.
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SPEAKER_00: All this stuff is going on.
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And again,
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it's...
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I'm not saying that anything ultimately has to be negated.
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SPEAKER_00: Your sacramental journey will still continue.
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You'll continue to see all the same phenomena that you had
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previously been defining
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SPEAKER_00: in a very fixed,
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SPEAKER_00: rigid way.
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And you'll actually have more spaciousness and more
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skillfulness to responsibly
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SPEAKER_00: navigate and adaptively attune to those phenomena.
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You'll have more capacity to serve spaciously in what we call
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the world as you go
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SPEAKER_00: deeper into this inquiry,
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SPEAKER_00: I would suggest to you.
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SPEAKER_00: So it's not about negating everything.
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SPEAKER_00: However...
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SPEAKER_00: When you start to relinquish the fixity,
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SPEAKER_00: the grasping,
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a lot of it is the grasping onto ideas and definitions and
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really trying to make
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SPEAKER_00: those absolutely true or into fixed dogmas.
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SPEAKER_00: That's where we get in a lot of trouble.
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SPEAKER_00: So when you start to loosen that grip
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what begins to happen is there's a very primordial sense of
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returning home to now,
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SPEAKER_00: returning home to now to the only place you've ever been.
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You start to naturally occupy the now more fully,
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notice the now more fully,
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realize that
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now is home and that now is incredibly simple that's that's a
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big part of this
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there there's this incredible simplicity that is available here
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through our our
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fixed definitions we have gotten ourselves cabbaged up and
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modeled up and entangled
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SPEAKER_00: in this giant
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bramble of complication of oh my gosh all this stuff going on
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out there and oh my
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gosh all this stuff that happened to me in the past that has
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rigidly defined me as
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this type of person and oh I'm so deeply identified with
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everything that happened
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to me and oh what am I going to do in the future how am I going
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to figure this all
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out you know we all probably know what this is like to be to
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feel trapped in
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SPEAKER_00: a mind run wild and at the mercy of all of these stories.
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SPEAKER_00: And what if there was a possibility of just letting all that go,
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SPEAKER_00: undercutting all of that,
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seeing that all of that cannot come close to containing the
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actual vastness that
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SPEAKER_00: you are,
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SPEAKER_00: the spacious freedom that you are,
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SPEAKER_00: the oceanic totality that you are,
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SPEAKER_00: which happens to be presenting as this,
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SPEAKER_00: you know,
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SPEAKER_00: particular personal emanation,
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SPEAKER_00: but just noticing that this,
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this personal emanation of Eunice is like a flowering that is
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in no way separate.
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SPEAKER_00: It's like the blossom that is fully,
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SPEAKER_00: fully coming forth from this oceanic totality,
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SPEAKER_00: which is like the stalk and the leaves and the soil.
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SPEAKER_00: You are,
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in no way separate from this oceanic totality you are this
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oceanic totality and
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that totality is always right here right now always holding and
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unfolding you and
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waiting for you to remember that there is this primal simple
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rest available to just
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simply rest as now in the absence of definitions forgetting
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everything you know
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SPEAKER_00: I love this way of gesturing toward awakening, forgetting everything.
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SPEAKER_00: On the flip side, I often talk about it as remembering.
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SPEAKER_00: I often talk about it as humanity has been deep in forgetfulness.
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SPEAKER_00: We've forgotten non-separation.
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We've forgotten that we are the ocean,
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that we all are one body,
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one body.
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SPEAKER_00: We've become,
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SPEAKER_00: again,
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SPEAKER_00: through the power of language and identification with words,
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SPEAKER_00: which create this sense of separation,
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we've gotten deeply entangled in these stories of separation
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that lead us into this
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SPEAKER_00: endless condition of war.
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SPEAKER_00: War with ourselves, war with life, war with each other.
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SPEAKER_00: literal physical dismemberment of bodies and beings and children.
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SPEAKER_00: You know,
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it's utterly disturbing and heartbreaking what the illusion of
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separation has
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SPEAKER_00: wrought within humanity.
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So in a sense,
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you can also flip it around and say we've been living in deep
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forgetfulness and
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SPEAKER_00: We are ever presently invited to remember wholeness,
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SPEAKER_00: to remember non-separation,
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SPEAKER_00: to remember the oceanic totality.
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SPEAKER_00: Yet paradoxically,
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the way that we remember is by forgetting everything or
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radically loosening our
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SPEAKER_00: grip on everything that
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SPEAKER_00: comes with that entire paradigm of separation,
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SPEAKER_00: forgetting all these language games that we have been indoctrinated into.
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SPEAKER_00: And when you do that,
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when you just let the rainwater of pure presence wash away all
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those definitions,
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SPEAKER_00: when you start to just offer them up,
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SPEAKER_00: when you get curious,
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SPEAKER_00: really,
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SPEAKER_00: what would life be like
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If I relinquished all this,
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you know,
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you can test it out for even just a minute or two.
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SPEAKER_00: You can say, okay, I'm just going to do a test.
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I'm just going to relinquish all sense of being a separate
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definable entity.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm giving it all back to life,
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SPEAKER_00: to presence,
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SPEAKER_00: to God,
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SPEAKER_00: to the fires of grace,
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SPEAKER_00: however you want to conceive of that.
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I'm giving back the external world,
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all sense of being a separate definable entity.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm giving back the past,
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SPEAKER_00: the future,
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SPEAKER_00: even the present,
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even these subtle concepts like awareness and here now and God
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and oceanic
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SPEAKER_00: totality.
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SPEAKER_00: Every word I've said in this video, it's all still concepts.
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SPEAKER_00: But giving all of that back,
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SPEAKER_00: giving back all sense of ownership,
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SPEAKER_00: all sense of blame,
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SPEAKER_00: all sense of fault finding in anything,
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SPEAKER_00: all sense of defining problems
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SPEAKER_00: Anywhere.
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SPEAKER_00: All sense of defining enemies.
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SPEAKER_00: Anywhere.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm giving back all sense of all my maps and models and opinions.
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SPEAKER_00: All my most tightly held on to political opinions.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm literally tossing those in the bonfire.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm giving all of those back.
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I'm burning away all my most primordial ideas that my name is
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so-and-so and I was
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born so-and-so and I'm connected to all these people and I need
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to do these things
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SPEAKER_00: and yada,
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SPEAKER_00: yada,
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SPEAKER_00: yada.
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SPEAKER_00: Just seeing what it's like to just burn it all down.
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SPEAKER_00: Even burning down,
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SPEAKER_00: you know,
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SPEAKER_00: the sense of,
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SPEAKER_00: oh yeah,
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some of life is right and some of life is wrong and some of
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life is light and some
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SPEAKER_00: of life is dark.
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SPEAKER_00: giving back all of those concepts just to see what happens.
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SPEAKER_00: It's not a permanent, ultimate negation of ethical behavior.
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SPEAKER_00: Again,
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SPEAKER_00: I'd suggest that a deeper integrity and a deeper natural love and natural
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SPEAKER_00: compassion becomes possible through this process.
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But part of the process is being willing to,
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again,
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burn down all ideas,
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all ideas,
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SPEAKER_00: And so what happens when you do that?
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SPEAKER_00: It's worthwhile to just take a minute or two,
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SPEAKER_00: give it all back,
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SPEAKER_00: give all of that back,
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SPEAKER_00: burn all that down and see where that leaves you.
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SPEAKER_00: See what remains.
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SPEAKER_00: What remains when you've burnt down all beliefs,
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SPEAKER_00: when you've burnt down all sense of knowing what this is,
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SPEAKER_00: all definition
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SPEAKER_00: It just feels like openness,
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SPEAKER_00: spaciousness,
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SPEAKER_00: the sound of water trickling down the trees,
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SPEAKER_00: the feeling of the ground beneath my seat.
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SPEAKER_00: Without those definitions, without those words, there's just the
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SPEAKER_00: There's just the primordial sensation,
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SPEAKER_00: the primordial intonation of whatever is presenting,
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SPEAKER_00: whatever sensations are swirling around.
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SPEAKER_00: And I see that it's starting to rain now, which is beautiful.
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SPEAKER_00: but also I may need to wrap things up here.
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So essentially just invite you to playfully engage in
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forgetting everything.
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SPEAKER_00: Contact immediate experience as an unknown tapestry of vastness,
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SPEAKER_00: as an unknown vastness,
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SPEAKER_00: as an immediate explosion of
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of radiance you've never seen yourself before you've never seen
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your children
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before you've never seen your wife before you've never seen
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your life before let it
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be new let it be fresh because it is it's new and fresh in this
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moment you've never
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seen this moment before you're under no obligation to be the
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person you were five
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seconds ago it's all new it's all fresh there's an incredible
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simplicity available
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right here and now when we simply relinquish all definitions
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and just let this be
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SPEAKER_00: as it is,
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SPEAKER_00: be as it already is.
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We don't have to know what it is or pin it down in a belief
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system to simply be
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SPEAKER_00: with it,
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SPEAKER_00: let it be what it is and know it in a different way,
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know it most intimately by being it and being with it and
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feeling it and feeling
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SPEAKER_00: how it endlessly opens into more of itself
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SPEAKER_00: We don't have to pin it down to know it in that way,
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SPEAKER_00: which is like an ever unfolding,
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SPEAKER_00: ever unfurling,
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SPEAKER_00: opening and blossoming as boundlessness.
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SPEAKER_00: We are this boundlessness.
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SPEAKER_00: So that's the invitation.
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SPEAKER_00: If it resonates, let yourself play with that.
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SPEAKER_00: Peace and love.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you for listening.
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SPEAKER_00: Take it easy, my friends.
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SPEAKER_00: Peace and love to you.